Who this book is for

This book will be of benefit to you if you are a software developer/machine learning engineer trying to understand the state-of-the-art in NLP. A large part of the book deals with real-life problems and considerations for creating an NLP pipeline. If you are an NLP researcher, there is a lot of value here because you will learn about the internal algorithms and considerations taken while developing the fastText software. All the code examples are written in Jupyter Notebooks. I highly recommend you type them out, change them, and tinker with them. Keep the code handy so that you can use it later in your actual projects.